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MONDAY
APRIL 15,1996
Great Hall Parties Nixed by Shooting
■ A Durham man was the
victim of a drive-by shooting
after Saturday’s Greek Freak.
STAFF REPORT
University officials Sunday canceled
parties in the Great Hall for the rest of the
semester following an early morning drive
by shooting that put a Durham man in the
hospital.
Shon Chambers, 24, of Durham, was
near the crosswalk in front of Fetzer Gym
nasium at about 1:35 a.m. when at least
three shots were fired from a 1995 red two
door Honda traveling on South Road,
University Police Chief Don Gold said.
Two bullets, fired from a semi-auto
matic handgun, struck Chambers in the
legs. He was transported to UNC Hospi
tals, where he was listed in good condition
Sunday night.
N.C. Highway patrolmen stopped the
car for speeding and apprehended three
men—none of whom were UNC students
on Interstate 40 at about 3 a.m. after
University police issued a statewide bulle
tin for the vehicle, Gold said.
University police charged Plimpton Lee
Robinson, 25, of 566 C Dacian Road, in
Raleigh, with assault with a deadly weapon
with intent to kill. Robinson was also
charged with driving while impaired. He
was being held at Orange County Jail un
der a $50,000 cash bond, Gold said.
Lamont McEachin, 23, of 2226
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Carolina Course Review Receives
Loan to Pay Off $4,000 Debt
BYDAVE SNELL
STAFF WRITER
The Carolina Course Review will con
tinue to publish next semester thanks to a
loan from the Student Activity Funds Of
fice. However, costs may force the Course
Review to change its format.
The loan, which the Student Fee Audit
Committee recommended Thursday night,
gives the Carolina Course Review enough
money to repay the printer for the Spring
1996 publication, plus 1.5 percent interest
on its overdue bill.
As of Wednesday, the Carolina Course
Review had only 23 cents in its SAFO
account and owed $4,000 to its printer, the
Publishing Place Inc.
The committee decided the money
would be repaid to SAFO over the next
two semesters by reducing student fee alio
Frisbee Fun Catches Carrboro Dogs, Owners in Weekend Event
■ The winner of Sunday's
competition will compete in
regional competition.
BY KATE HARRISON
STAFF WRITER
Owners gripped their Frisbees in antici
pation, dogs jumped in water basins to
cool down and spectators cheered for the
running and leaping dogs at the sixth an
nual Canine Frisbee Competition Sunday.
The event was held at the Canrboro
Community Park and consisted of two
separate competitions. The mini-distance
competition had 29 participants, and the
free flight competition had three partici
pants.
Each dog in the mini-distance competi
tion had one minute to catch and return as
many Frisbees as he could. Scores were
based on the distance the dog ran to catch
the Frisbee and whether he caught it in
mid-air or with his paws on the ground.
Not all the dogs were interested in sim
ply returning the Frisbee to their owners.
Christine Callwood’s dog Malcolm had
bigger plans and made a grand escape out
the fence as soon as he got hold of the
Frisbee. All was not lost, however, and
Malcolm returned to the field to catch and
retrieve one of the Frisbees, which was
Callwood’s one goal for her German shep
herd in his first competition.
Marc Kessler’s dog, Saul, fared better,
cominginfirstplacewiths7points. “Itwas
the first time he’s ever done a competition
like this, so it went really well,” he said.
Second place went to last year’s cham
pions Veronica LaPierre and her dog
Hemp; third place went to Jeff Stanaway
Topping Things Off
Workers placed the last
steel beam on the new
business school Friday.
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Lt. Lori Palazzo of the University Police stands behind the police line at the scene of a drive-by shooting in front of
Fetzer Gymnasium on Sunday morning. The victim was shot twice and is currently in good condition at UNC Hospitals.
cations to the Carolina Course Review by
25 percent. The Course Review will be
responsible for repaying the loan at 1 per
cent interest, compounded monthly, dur
ing the 1996-97 fiscal year.
Course Review co-publishers Hoke Pol
lock and Ashley Parrott agreed to the terms
of repayment and accepted the reduced
budget for the 1996-97 year.
“In comparison to our other option,
bankruptcy, we’re willing to accept a
smaller budget next semester, ” Pollock said.
Student Body Treasurer and Student
Fee Audit Committee Chairwoman Julie
Gasperini said former treasurer Nathan
Darling was aware of the insufficient funds
long before the bill was due.
“He knew the income and operating
costs are consistent from year to year,” she
said.
SAFO Director Harold Brubaker said
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The sixth annual Canine Frisbee Competition was held Sunday at Carrboro
Community Park. Dogs and owners enjoyed the Frisbee Competion.
and his dog Codie the Dixie Flyer; and
fourth place went to Robert Fuhr and his
dog Yankee.
Dogs in the free flight competition had
one minute to perform more complicated
tricks with the Frisbees and were judged on
the degree of difficulty, execution, and
leaping ability.
Stanaway and his dog Codie the Dixie
Flyer won first place in free flight with 26
points out of a possible 30.
Stanaway said Codie’s winning trick
was his ability to leap off his owner's back
to catch a Frisbee in mid-air. “Iflcanthink
A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
Many Happy
Returns
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means money, mailing and
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the total cost of publication for the Caro
lina Course Review was $8,480.
“I knew what the final publication costs
were going to be ... and there was only
about $5,000 on hand,” Brubaker said.
“Obviously, there was going to be a short
fall.”
Brubakersaidhetold Darling and former
Course Review Publisher Lee Conner about
the problem, and Conner told him the
money would be there when the bill came
due.
“I mentioned it three or four times to
them,” Brubaker said. “Conner said there
was money coming from the Educational
Foundation but then Moyer (Smith, direc
tor of the Educational Foundation) said he
had no idea they had applied.”
Pollock refuted Brubaker’s comment,
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up a trick, I can teach it to him, ” Stanaway
said. “All it takes is imagination.”
Neither the owners nor the dogs in the
crowd seemed to feel the pressure of fierce
competition.
The dogs were not the only ones who
had to perform well. The owners had to be
able to throw the Frisbee well, and Terrie
Riggsbee, who threw for his friend Phyllis
Combs’ dog, Fluzie, complained that he
“couldn’t throw worth a damn.”
“They gave Fluzie some doggy biscuits
before he went out,” Riggsbee said. “Maybe
I just needed some pork or something to
Got It Made
In the Shade
Students are enjoying
Forest Theatre's
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Dervin Tapped as New ASG President
■ He pledged to increase
communication between the
16 UNC-system campuses.
BY SHARIF DURHAMS
STAFF WRITER
Running on a platform of uniting the 16
UNC-system schools, senior John Dervin
was elected president of the Association of
Student Governments on Friday.
Dervin said he wanted to strengthen the
power of the association of UNC-system
student body presidents and campus del
egates by lobbying for a vote on the Board
of Governors. Currently, the ASG presi
dent is a non-voting member.
“In the past, this body has kind of floun
dered without a purpose and without a
vision,” he said. “What I want to do with
this association is to build it.”
To address concerns about racial ten
sions between historically black and his
torically white schools, Dervin said he
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The mini-distance event had 29 dogs competing, while the free flight
competition only drew three dogs.
make me throw better.”
First place winners of both competi
tions received a t-shirt, a trophy, a Frisbee
Todays
Weather
Cloudy; high mid-70s.
Tuesday Rainy and coder;
high mid-60s.
How to Pick Successor
For UNC’s President?
BY ROBYN TOMLIN HACKLEY
STATES NATIONAL EDITOR
UNC Board of Governors Chairman
Sam Neill appointed an ad hoc committee
to look at the process for picking the suc
cessor to UNC-system President C.D.
Spangler at Friday’s BOG meeting.
“I appointed a committee to develop a
presidential selection process and to make
decisions about
how to set up a
search committee,”
Neill said. “It is very
important as we pre
pare for the presi
dential search.”
Neill, who is
from
Hendersonville,
will chair the com
mittee. The other
members are
Clifford Cameron
of Charlotte; Lois
Britt of Mount Ol
ive; Benjamin
UNC-system President
C.D. SPANGLER said
forming the committee
was ‘appropriate at
this time.'
Ruffin of Lewisville; and former Gov. Jim
Holshouser of Southern Pines. Cameron is
the only Republican on the committee,
and Britt and Cameron both competed for
the BOG chairmanship last year.
Cameron said Sunday that he is seri
ously considering another run for the BOG
chairmanship. He said the new committee
would try to in
crease communica
tion between the
schools.
Dervin said he
would work on
hosting a statewide
race relations sum
mit. He said the
idea, whichhe origi
nally proposed as an
ASG delegate in
September, had
been postponed be
cause of finances.
“The problem is
Senior JOHN DERVIN
will serve as a non
voting member of the
Board of Governors.
that we have no budget,” he said Sunday.
During his speech at the General Ad
ministration building, Dervin said moves
by the BOG threatened student self-gover
nance. Dervin said system President C.D.
Spangler implied in a meeting including
Dervin and former UNC-CH Student Body
President Calvin Cunningham that stu
dent votes, such as the 2 to 1 vote to
renovate dining facilities, were not a man-
and a bone-shaped identification tag. They
also qualify to compete at the regional
level.
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was developed to look at the old search
process and see if it needs amending.
“In our two day assessment meeting,
one of the things that came up was the
system or the plan that was used 10 or 11
years ago. We wanted to look at the old
process and see if it’s what we want to do
this time,” Cameron said.
Spangler, who turned 64 earlier this
month, has said he will announce his re
tirement plans at the board’s August meet
ing. Neill said that it became clear to the
board at a recent retreat that they need to
begin planning for the search for Spangler’s
replacement.
Neill said the search process for anew
president will take about a year. The search
will be advertised nationally, and Neill
said he expects about 200 people to apply.
The UNC system was formed in 1972.
Replacing William Friday, Spangler be
come only the second person to lead the
16-school system. Spangler has been in his
current position for 10 years.
Friday retired at age 65, but BOG rules
would allow Spangler to stay in office until
he turned 70. “We’ve only done this once
before, in 1985. A lot of things have changed
since then. We need to take a good look at
the process. It’s very important that the
board be supportive of whoever is chosen
for the position,” Neill said.
Spangler said Neill’s decision to form
the committee was “entirely appropriate at
this time.”
date to the BOG because so few students
voted. Only 3,166 students voted on the
issue. “We’ve got to empower students,
get respect for students and for student
self-governance,” Dervin said.
After the meeting, current ASG presi
dent Keith Bryant, a senior from N.C.
Agricultural andTechnicalUniversity, said
the food services issue should be addressed
by the BOG in May. “From my under
standing, it will be on the May agenda. If it
is not, I have the right to make a motion to
consider it.”
Dervin said he would work with UNC
system lobbyists to prioritize the needs of
the system.
As ASG vice president of Student Af
fairs, Dervin wrote a resolution opposing
federal cuts in financial aid which won
ASG’s “Legislation of the Year.” Sixteen
campus leaders endorsed his campaign and
stated he was a “coalition builder here on
campus.”
Dervin currently serves as an advisor to
UNC-CH Student Body President Aaron
Nelson.
Gore to Speak
At Chapel Hill
Day Care
STAFF REPORT
Vice President A1 Gore will be in Chapel
Hill and Raleigh today. Gore was sched
uled to be in the area last Monday but was
forced to reschedule. At 9:30 a.m., Gore
and Gov. Jim Hunt will tour the Commu
nity School for People Under Six, a child
care center located at 410 Caldwell St.
Extension. The school relies on Smart Start
funds. Hunt and the vice president will
tour classrooms and read stories to 4- and
5-year-olds. After
the tour, they’ll hold
a roundtable discus
sion with parents,
teachers and volun
teers about the suc
cess of Smart Start.
After the forum,
Gore will attend a
private session at the
Kenan Center with
several members of
Triangle area col
lege media organi-
Vice President
ALGORE
zations. At 1:30p.m., Gore will appear at
N.C. State University along withU.S. Sen.
Bill Bradley, D-N.J.; Journalist Hedrick
Smith; U.S. Education Secretary Richard
Riley; and Economist Lester Thurow for
an issue forum titled, “The Knowledge
Explosion: What’s the Payoff for Ameri
cans,” The event is being held at the
McKimmon Center at NCSU. Gore will
address the importance of education tech
nology in our nation’s classrooms.